Cancelled Soaps Cast Lists

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As some of you know, I have been amassing cast lists for the soaps for many years. I figured that it doesn't do much good having all of this information and not sharing it. So this thread is for anyone that's curious about the cast members of past soaps. If anyone comes across any information I don't have, let me know, and I'll add it. If any of my information is wrong, please let me know. I'll add a little trivia here and there among the lists. Anyone's input is welcome, and I hope that there will be some new information some of you didn't know. So far these shows have been posted (9/13/17)

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I had not known that Roy Shumann had been on this show. I only knew him from As the World Turns,The Best of Everything, and Search for Tomorrow. I think that he was one of the best daytime actors (although I think that he was not good on Search for Tomorrrow because he was miscast).

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I had not known that Roy Shumann had been on this show. I only knew him from As the World Turns,The Best of Everything, and Search for Tomorrow. I think that he was one of the best daytime actors (although I think that he was not good on Search for Tomorrrow because he was miscast).

He may not have been, many of the old books I had used(a long time ago) had some other misprints. It may have been Roy Scheider that they meant, so that one isn't necessarily right, although it may be. I was looking for a date to correspond with the appearance, and I didn't find one. I'll go back and put a ? next to it until I find the book. Other than that one, I'm confident about my lists.

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Thanks Slick- that is an amazing effort.Well done and much appreciated.

I am going to have to read through it several times to get my head around it.

One thing I did pickup was Stan Watt as Charles Lamont. I have it that he was a temp in 1971 while Jonathan Moore filmed the movie 1776.

I had that , too on my paper, probably looking at something else when I typed it. I was reading about Watt being a replacement in Google Archives article just the other day. I fixed it in the list,thanks for catching that. some of the dates may be a little off, a lot of the characters without actor names came from SOD synopses, so they may be a little off.

Several of those characters also came from synopses French Fan posted(now in archives)....So thank you FF, your efforts were a big help for all soaps!

Another thanks to all of you that have posted episodes of past and present shows! A lot of my info came from credit crawls. Also, thank you to anyone that has posted articles on the boards with information. You all are great, and your efforts are truly appreciated.

Finally, a special thanks to Depboy, who has really been an enormous help in gathering information. Your research has helped me clear at least 100 blanks I had, between GH and other shows.

I'll post a few more smaller lists this week. Next bigger cast I'll put up will be Rituals, this weekend.

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Slick, the Bobby Mackey character on Love of Life appeared in 1972-73. This was the last story for Tess' character before Toni Bull Bua left. The 1968-69 date is wrong despite what the books might document.

Maria was the foster child adopted by Mark and Laura Elliott after Laura had to return Billy to Iris and Spence. Maria was a troubled child who locked Mark in the garage and set it on fire (September 1971) and subsequently caused a pregnant Laura to fall down the stairs and miscarry Mark's baby.

Edited March 19, 2015 by saynotoursoap

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Maria was the foster child adopted by Mark and Laura Elliott after Laura hasd to return Billy to Iris and Spence. Maria was a troubled child who locked Mark in the garage and set it on fire (September 1971) and subsequently caused a pregnant Laura to fall down the stairs and miscarry Mark's baby.